Real-time applications are indispensable for conducting research and business in government, industry, and academic organizations. Recently, real-time applications with security requirements increasingly emerged in large-scale distributed systems such as Grids. However, the complexities and specialties of diverse security mechanisms dissuade users from employing existing security services for t...

A typical pervasive application executes in a changing environment: people, computing resources, software services and network connections come and go continuously. A robust pervasive application needs adapt to this changing context as long as there is an appropriate rewiring strategy that guarantees correct behavior. We combine the MERODE modeling methodology with the ReWiRe framework for crea...

Social media may liberate citizens in societies with stringent media controls and accelerate political democratization. Yet, little is known about the relation between social media use and perceived constraints in a semi-authoritarian system. This study draws on Media System Dependency theory to examine this relation in the context of the 2011 Singapore General Election. Our findings, based on ...

Nowadays the question of identifying a person assumes a major role in many applications. To circumvent the limitations of traditional identity recognition mechanisms (e.g., passwords or ID cards), modern security control procedures often exploit people biometrics. This paper proposes a multimodal biometric system for personal recognition, based on three different biometrics computed from the sa...

Although it is easy to assume that the psychology of parental care pertains only to parents and their children, this is not so. An emerging body of research on the parental care motivational system reveals implications for everyone. All normally-developing human beings are characterized by evolved psychological mechanisms that regulate parental caregiving. These mechanisms are responsive to sup...

The current European regulation on public communications networks requires today that Telecommunications Service Providers (TSPs) take appropriate technical and organizational measures to manage the risks posed to security of networks and services. However, a key issue in this process is the risk identification activity, which roughly consists in defining what are the relevant risks regarding t...

This exploratory research examined the contributing influence of a range of contextual and individual variables on the prediction of education, occupation and income aspirations for Maori. Such variables included parental support, parental aspirations, personality, socioeconomic status, age, and Treaty of Waitangi claims settlements. Of particular interest was determining whether Treaty of Wait...

Introduction Adolescence is a time when patients are approaching autonomy, both developmentally and legally. Yet they are still minors and are likely to encounter contradictions between situations in which they are treated as children and ones in which they are treated as adults. Being able to access their medical information may enable adolescents to take on a participatory role in their healt...

This paper reviews the recent literature on the role that parenting has in the development of youth anxiety. Research indicates that certain parenting behaviors may be risk factors for youth anxiety problems. Three dimensions of parenting are examined as potential risk factors for youth anxiety: negative parenting behaviors (i.e. control and rejection), anxious rearing, and poor parental discip...

Objectives. The transition to adulthood can be challenging, especially for children of incarcerated parents. Drawing on reentry and life-course scholarship, we argue that parental incarceration may adversely affect multiple life outcomes for children as they progress from adolescence into adulthood and that such effects may persist from early young adulthood into late young adulthood. Methods. ...